Friday, May 10, 2013
No one was injured in the blaze, fire officials said
Summit firefighters said they extinguished a car fire that took place on Route 24 this morning. The car fire took place on Route 24 westbound in the area of Exit 7A, fire officials said. No one was injured in the blaze, fire officials said.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The following information was provided by the Summit Police Department. Arrests do not indicate convictions.
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
In 'Off the Cuff,' a television show featured on Summit-based HomeTowne Television, local police discuss their jobs and what they do when they're off duty.
Friday, May 3, 2013
The following information was provided by the Summit Police Department. Arrests do not indicate convictions.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
The following information was provided by the Summit Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
O'Neill was still running when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon.
Runner Meaghan O’Neill, 18, of Summit is the final runner from the city reported safe following the bombings on Monday at the Boston Marathon. Patch tried to reach out to the O’Neill’s phone number listed on the White Pages following the marathon, but the line was off the hook. According to an individual race tracker, O’Neill reached the 40K mark at 2:51:13 p.m. The Alternative Press published an article on her experience in Boston. They quoted O’Neill saying: "It was really kind of crazy. There were lots of tears, mostly, I think, out of uncertainty of the situations of loved ones near the finish line. Not knowing exactly what had happened - there were all sorts of people throwing out all sorts of casualties and injuries and no one knew …
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Authorities took potential evidence from Ailina Tsarnaev of West New York at the same time her younger brother was being taken into custody in Watertown, Massachusetts.
FBI agents and local police spent several hours in a West New York apartment Friday night removing computers, cell phones and other belongings from the residence of Ailina Tsarnaev, the sister of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, according to northjersey.com. A police presence in the form of one cruiser vehicle was stationed in front of the apartment building Saturday morning, the report said, and the officer on duty did not know how long the detail was scheduled to last. Officials told northjersey.com a 24-hour police presence would be placed outside the apartment. It was not known if Tsarnaev was still in the residence Saturday. Tsarnaev’s brothers, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 are suspected of planting the two…
Friday, April 19, 2013
SWAT teams closed in on the surviving suspect as he took shelter in the backyard of a home in Watertown, Massachusetts
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Friday, April 19
The following information was provided by the Summit Police Department. April 14, 2012: – Riley, Ryan T., 35, of Cranford was arrested at Broad Street for Driving While Intoxicated. April 15, 2013: At 10:36 a.m., police received a report of criminal mischief at a Blackburn Road private school. Four landscaping lights valued at $50.00 each were found broken. April 15, 2013: At 5:00 p.m., Bashe, Andrew L., 30, of Plainfield was arrested at Beauvoir Avenue for Assault Aggravated on Law Enforcement. April 16, 2013: At 12:01p.m., police received report of theft of an iPod valued at $300.00 from a vehicle that was parked at an Oak Ridge Avenue residence sometime between 8:00 p.m., April 15 and 8:00 a.m., this date. April 16, 2013: At 2:13 p.m…
Thursday, April 18, 2013
In a press conference Thursday, Special Agent Rick DesLauriers asked for the public's help identifying the two men seen here.
Thursday afternoon the FBI released surveillance photos and video of the two men they believe are suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. In a press conference Thursday, Special Agent Rick DesLauriers asked for the public's help identifying the men. The man the FBI is calling "Suspect 2" was seen leaving a backpack near the site of the second explosion just minutes before it occured. "Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, neighbors, coworkers or family members of the suspects," DesLauriers said. "Though it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward and provide it to us." Instructions for anyone with information about the bombings, from the FBI website: If you have visual images, …
Catherine Bach
4:43 am on Thursday, April 25, 2013
I'm a little confused by the first paragraph. It says Meaghan was the 'final runner from the city reported safe.' Do you mean from the City of Boston? Weren't there over 20,000 runners at the marathon? I'm thinking you meant the City of Summit but how many runners were there from Summit who participated in the Boston Marathon?   more ›